On a very wet afternoon on the 27th, we queued up in the grim weather to see the 9/11 Memorial Gardens. It was far far busier than the last time I went, and a much different atmosphere in the rain, compared to the hot and sunny September afternoon like last time. In a way, the rain seemed very fitting though.
The clouds were hanging low of the World Trade Center, hiding the final top portion of the new tower...
It's amazing to think that when this huge building is finished, those top floors will be in the clouds and sometimes above the clouds on some days.
As we were there in the late afternoon we were able to see the memorial pools all lit up this time...
They took on quite a different presences all lit up, they were beautiful.
It was incredibly wet and windy though, so we didn't stay for a great deal of time. You couldn't even stand by the second memorial pool as the water was being whipped up and blown about, like the sea on a pier during a storm.
It was nice to be able to visit the gardens during another season, seeing the trees looking quite different in the winter, and seeing some more progress on the construction sites surrounding the garden. I think it's going to be somewhere that we can visit again and again.
The Christmas lights near the World Trade Center were beautiful. I think (although I'm probably wrong) that this plaza was where all the Occupy Wall Street protestors were camped out just a couple of months ago. It looked completely different this Christmas. It was beautiful.
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